Emily Dickinson’s Holiday Advice
Poet Emily Dickinson shares her advice for spending the holidays alone.
“A Christmas Carol,” with Illustrations by John Leech
Project Gutenberg has a copy of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” complete with scans of the cover and John Leech’s illustrations from the first edition.
Art History, Digitized
The Princeton University Digital Library has digitized three Seventeenth Century Japanese illustrated scrolls and you can view them here. Meanwhile, 100,000 images from Getty Research Institute are now available at the Digital Library of America. (via @BibliOdyssey)
“Leave No Black Plume As A Token: Tracing Poe’s Raven”
At Atlas Obscura, J.W. Ocker writes about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in monuments, memorials, artifacts and ephemera. “I spent more than a year visiting memorials, mementos, monuments, and more dedicated or connected to Edgar Allan Poe in the places he lived and visited. That meant traveling from […]
Heart of Darkness, A Drawing For Every Page
Tin House has published an edition of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness illustrated by Matt Kish, an interesting follow-up to Kish’s project, Moby-Dick In Pictures; One Drawing For Every Page. See more of Kish’s work here.
Black Victoriana
A gallery of photographs of people of African descent from the Victorian era. (Via Kit Marlowe)
The Cultural Gutter 